Girl wins $50,000 in Texting Competetion

[Motownkid]

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How fast R U? Girl wins $50,000 in texting competition after racking up 14,000 texts-per-month habit



For most parents of teenagers constantly glued to their mobile phones, texting is a dirty, and often expensive, word but the activity has netted one girl $50,000 (£30,500) and a new phone.

Fifteen-year-old American, Kate Moore beat off 20 other finalists to win the National Texting Championships after completing a series of bizarre tasks that included: texting blindfolded and texting while maneuvering through a moving obstacle course - whether that course included annoyed pedestrians was unconfirmed.

Miss Moore has only had a mobile phone for eight months but has already developed an eye-watering 14,000 texts-per-month habit.

In the end however her addiction reaped its own reward.

She said: 'Let your kid text during dinner! Let your kid text during school! It pays off.

'Your kid could win money and publicity and a phone.'

The teen dismissed the idea that she focuses too much on virtual communications, saying that while she has sometimes had her phone confiscated at school, she gets good grades, performs in school plays and at the weekend socialises with friends face-to-face rather than via a screen.

In between, she finds time to send over 400 texts a day. The purpose of which she explains is to study for exams with friends, which she says is better done by text because she can look back at the messages.

The competition, now in its third year, tests the speed and accuracy of the entrants and also for their knowledge of text speak such as PAW - 'parents are watching'.

In the final showdown, Miss Moore outtexted 14-year-old Morgan Dynda after both girls had to text three lengthy phrases without making any mistakes on the required abbreviations, capitalisation or punctuation.

Moore won by a whisker on the tiebreaking text, getting the best two out of three. As she anxiously waited for confirmation of her win, tears streamed down her face.

Elsewhere in the competition twenty-year-old Jackie Boyd, who came in fifth, said she prefers text messages to phone calls because they get through faster and they're more private.
She said: 'You can get more of what you really truly want to say across with texting. Especially if it's an argument, you don't have to worry about saying the wrong thing.

'And if you don't want to respond, you can always say, "Oh, I didn't get your text."'

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[Motownkid]

Kanang 400 texts-a-day & 14,000 texts-per-month habit niya wala ra na sa Pinoy teens nowadays.

[popoy2]

^^sakto gyud ka motown...pdaghanay lag text..daog gyud ta cgurado..pkapinan pa gyug mga GM..hahaha

[iris_primsting]

ahaha karead ko ani
dri pa to sa pinas, d jud cla kalupig...

[kolz]

Wa ra na sa pinas .... kanang mag text nagpiyong, lupigon na sa nag text nga natulog nga naghagok pa gyud.

[kingcharles]

lucky girl

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

Pero walay short cut cguro ang winner , with proper and correct spelling cguro este siguro ahahhaa!

[achibaby]

unsa d i nang GM?

[the_juggernaut]

general manager?
grand motors?
granstar motors?

[monochromatic]

grabeha pud makada ug text ui. eheh